Yeah, I could see it as an issue if he plays 42+ minutes a night for the next few seasons. But he didn't get a ton of PT in either of his first regular seasons so I can't imagine a few weeks of a big workload will have an effect.

I was gonna say this. Jimmy is the new Luol. We are going to let Luol walk after next season, by which time Jimmy will have played 82 straight games of 45 minutes or more, and then we will give Jimmy all of Luolz money, only to have him develop some nagging injury that will never go away.

That said, I should have been more proactive/less lazy earlier in the year and bought a Butler shirt.

This is correct.

That's why I could see Luol being on the market this off-season. I hope it doesn't happen but it may.

It's a shame the bulls bench will continue to get decimated year after year, cause a quality bench forced thibs to at least rotate everybody except lou. As the bench gets thinner more and more players will start getting the lou treat from thibs. I can see in a couple of years when lou and boozer are gone, Taj and Jimmy Buckets both playing whole games.

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Is Shaun Hill a top 10 QB? Definitely not. Is he a top 20 one? Almost certainly.

It's a shame the bulls bench will continue to get decimated year after year, cause a quality bench forced thibs to at least rotate everybody except lou. As the bench gets thinner more and more players will start getting the lou treat from thibs. I can see in a couple of years when lou and boozer are gone, Taj and Jimmy Buckets both playing whole games.

Meh, the only issue is this year and next because we have so much tied up in salary. Boozer will be gone after next year at the latest I'm sure and Deng will either be gone or have a more affordable contract. At that point we will have Rose, Taj, and Noah locked up, and hopefully Jimmy signed to a non-Dengesque contract. We will probably have Mirotic in 2 years, and unless he is the 2nd coming of Vlad-Rad, we will also have our draft picks plus Charlotte's first in 2015.

I'm not all that worried about depth going forward given the front office and staff's ability to identify/bring in players they need.

Another Perkins statistic: Had more fouls (38) than rebounds, points, and blocks combined (36) these playoffs.

So... Thunder offseason moves anyone? Clearly amnesty Perk, but what do we do with KMart? I am hoping we develop DeAndre Liggins, I really like him, maybe more than I should though. And then in the draft, no idea who we'll take.

Can they go after Howard? How sick would overrated Durant be with Howard and Westbrook?

The Thunder don't have a ton of cap flexibility so Howard won't be option and I don't think he'd be a good fit either. Howard needs to go somewhere much like he had during the successful days in Orlando where he can operate from the post and he has a handful of guys who thrive from the perimeter.

Well maybe they'll realize that they were idiots in doing so and make up for it? Howard would be a great fit with them, really don't see the argument against it. KD/D12 and Russ/D12 pick and rolls would be nasty when you have someone like KD waiting on the kick-out.

I don't think the Warriors have the cap room to straight up sign him so you'd have to give up something in exchange in a sign and trade. They used their amnesty already on Charlie Bell so they could bid on DeAndre Jordan lolz.